Ask.com has released version 11 of their new search engine today. The new version somewhat goes back to the Ask Jeeves approach, focusing on providing structured search results, mostly in the form of answers.

A few days ago, Ask.com relaunched Ask Kids, a site that was "built from the ground-up, with Ask's own search technology.

Some skeptics have publicly predicted the death of Ask.com. However, for the divisions that will become the new IAC, including Internet services such as Ask.com and Match.com, revenue rose 11% as earnings improved 3%.

Ask announced that Photobucket has put its search box on the site. Photobucket is owned by MySpace parent News Corp., which has a search deal with Google. The Ask deal with Photobucket includes sponsored listings and other ads.

Ask.com has migrated off of their mapping platform and onto Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform. If you navigate to maps.ask.com you will now see Virtual Earth (or MapPoint Web Service for those who don't have supported browsers or JavaScript is disabled).

After speaking with Ask.com CEO Jim Safka on whether they will ever get back to making core search a priority, Barry Schwartz is unconvinced it will happen anytime soon.